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'Magic Mushroom' Drug May Improve Personality Long-Term

"In new research that will almost certainly create controversy, scientists working with the hallucinogen psilocybin -- the active ingredient found in 'magic mushrooms' -- have found that a single dose of the drug prompted an enduring but positive personality change in almost 60 percent of patients."